That very much depends on where you live. I pay about $1500 a month in rent, and, for someone of my age and generation, I have quite healthy savings and no debt. If I wanted to buy a small house anywhere close to transit (which I need since I don’t have a car), a 20% down payment would still be 4 times my savings, and…

“guiltiness”

What a fucking moron.

“Uh, hey man, you got any carbs? The wife’s got me on paleo.”

“None of these examples are at all convincing,”

sez you.

Just wanted to say I really enjoy and appreciate these recurring columns and the scholarship involved!

... “with tours”?

Quality journalism, this (not being sarcastic).

Society’s objectives are not the same as those of a rapist. Specifically: our objective is that he does not rape again. Punishment (and the suffering it causes to him) can be justified to the extent that it meets that goal, *while* not creating unintended consequences that are even worse. Like people convicted of…

Attack ad blitzes are really something. I don’t think it invalidates your larger point, but I think part of the ptsd-like timidity of liberal politicians in the US is probably due to knowing just how fast, and how easily, people can be stampeded in a direction opposite to their higher thinking-processes by scary tv…

This didn’t work in court, either. If you go around saying “I’m going to make a muslim ban! I’m going to make a muslim ban!” and then you ban a bunch of people from muslim-majority countries, everyone then knows what you’re doing, dude.

Wait, what, so... he just gets his last meal for *free*?

Lucky ducky

I think there’s a big difference between police and ice. There are big systemic problems with police culture, but there are still fundamentally valid and honorable reasons to want to serve as a police officer. I’m really struggling to think of any for ice, and I think that’s reflected in their recruitment troubles.

They’ll have human bbq. They’ll be fine!

Lucretia is *very* fancy. You peasant.

No law is simply what it says it is. That’s why we have courts.

He did, in fact, though the reality was of course a little less dramatic than it sounds. Gorsuch ruled against a truck driver who was suing his company for wrongful termination, after the driver was ordered to remain with a stranded trailer in winter conditions incompatible with remaining alive, rather than seek…

One might have been a condition of the other happening gracefully?

Very well written piece, thank you.

The point of torture is torture.

Because we’re all going to die, and that’s a bummer.